Teen Titans Go! To the movies

A big-screen adaptation of the popular Cartoon Network series, this spoofs superheroes and superhero movies with wild abandon. Five young wannabe-heroes find everybody has a movie but them, and their attempts to get into the movies forms the slim thread tying together a lot of jokes that will appeal to hard core comic book nerds and five year old boys in roughly equal measure. It’s all utterly ridiculous in a way that had me grinning repeatedly – particular during the “I want it to be Oscar nominated” song, “An Upbeat Inspirational Song about Life”, sung by Michael Bolton in the persona of a large white tiger. This is about as meta a self parody as there’s ever been, and if this misses your wavelength I can imagine this being a pretty tedious 80 minutes or so. But otherwise, this is pure fantastic enjoyment.